[Neurology of the so-called early-childhood, minimal, organic brain damage].

Infantile minimal brain damage is expressed through a wide range of behaviour disorders, learning disorders, speech disorders, short attention span and motor anomalies in combinations and degrees of intensity which vary with the individual. Neurologically it is frequently characterized by a delay in the development of sensomotor functions which is manifested, for example, by clumsiness, coordination disorders and motor restlessness. Special attention is drawn to the problems surrounding the so-called "soft" neurologic signs. Instead of generalizing, and therefore imprecise, diagnostic labels such as "minimal cerebral dysfunction", the physician should, if a more precise diagnosis is impossible, draw up a list of findings or problems as a basis for further diagnostic and therapeutic measures, if any.